Personal Injury Law

Defective IKEA Roman Blinds Recalled for Strangulation Hazard

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has recalled about 670,000 of IKEA?s defective IRIS and ALVINE Roman blinds because of a strangulation hazard for young children. According to this CPSC alert, young children can get strangulated when they place their neck in an exposed inner cord on the backside of the defective blinds.

That?s exactly what happened in the case of a 1-year-old girl in Greenwich, Connecticut. She became entangled in the inner cord of an IKEA Roman blind and strangled. The child was apparently playing in a portable playpen that was located underneath a fully lowered Roman blind. She was later found partially suspended with the inner cord of the blind wrapped twice around her neck. The defective product recall involves all sizes of IRIS and ALVINE Roman blinds in white that were manufactured in India. They were reportedly sold in IKEA stores nationwide from July 2005 through June 2008 for between $7 and $30.

Every year, thousands of innocent Americans, many of them children, are injured or killed by dangerous and defective products which should not have been marketed or sold in the first place. These IKEA Roman blinds certainly fall under that category. Victims of these defective products, often times, will be eligible to recover damages from the manufacturers or distributors of such defective products.

If you or a loved one has been injured because of a product defect, please call the New York product defect attorneys at Wingate, Russotti & Shapiro for a free and comprehensive consultation. You may be eligible to receive compensation for medical bills (funeral expenses where applicable), lost wages, pain and suffering.

Full post as published by New York Injury Talk Blog on November 11, 2008 (boomark / email).